Sc. [f. CHANGE sb. + HOUSE.] ‘A small inn or alehouse’ (Jam.). (Perhaps originally a wayside inn at which horses were or might be changed; in which sense it sometimes remains as a proper name on the old coach-roads.)
c. 1620. Z. Boyd, Zion’s Flowers (1855), 72. When men see the Ivy bush hang out, They knowe the change-house.
1700. Sir A. Balfour, Lett., 52 (Jam.). A little kind of chainge-house … that provides meat for men and horses.
1814. Scott, Wav., xi. The guests had left their horses at the small inn, or change-house, as it was called, of the village.
1848. Clough, Bothie, VI. 78. These … Went by the lochside along to the changehouse near in the clachan.
